TT week trail ridding in the IOM

Well here go's race report on the isle of man week away dudes,things did'nt get of to a great start two weeks before were due to leave i took the berg for a quick spin round the lanes ,when the clutch nut came loose oh s..t lots of noise clater clater not good me thinks stripdown shows that the two half moon rings behind the alloy clutch basket had done walkabout through the primary gears So time for a rebuild not ideal but rather it happened here than over in the island,turns out also that the oe piston i fitted not long ago had been hitting the counter balance drive gear, that left a week to go and my engine spread over the four corners of my workshop with me trying to get a new piston and gears sorted, top marks to alex at dave clark's for sorting me out turns out them orange nerds had missed machining the piston only just over 60 thou but enough to touch the gear, this still left me half a day to get it rebuilt and put back in the frame so much for a calm build up to the week away .
Phone rings its chief who is a veteran to the TT allready on the road heading to Haysham to catch the sat morning ferry asking if ive set off yet ,things are looking good vans loaded with the berg and enough tools and spares to rebuild most events, just time to pop home grab a few things ,much to the horror of her in doors who plans her weekends away with military precision things were looking good on the road at last 3 hours to the ferry to meet up with chief /rickstar/lard /and bear.
The ferry is due to sail at 2am sat morning, end up getting there just in time to get a swift beer the Holiday has begun Chief then tells me due a booking cock up that we may have to wait for the next ferry sat dinner,anyway more beers and the thought of sleepping in the van seems not to bad ,
After a not to bad a sleep we were awoken to the loud sounds of BYE JOVI from a van full of loud Erics (Germans) any how in a show of European harmony we helped our selves to there offer of cold pizza and a beer for breakfast .
Day 1 turns out we only just got on the dinner time ferry , never had this trouble before says chief, anyway we finally set sail and get to Douglas at 6am, sat is the first practice so we spend it watching practice from quarter bridge , all in all a good start a couple of beers wash the cheese burger down seems like thats the staple diet for the week, then chief pops up with the might be a cock up with the campsite booking due to him not ringing up till a week before were due here ,still chiefs confident his charm with the campsite owners wife will gain us a top site to stay.
No probs says chief after a hours chit chat with the sites owners wife i think were in the penthouse field up top there, just going to move the sheep for us first :?
Chief jumps in the van with me to co pilot while lard and the others follow in his van, were are we heading i say up that stone'y goat track comes the reply, feck me the vans doing a right good lick on bouncing around up the hillside I'm sure everest base camp is lower than were we intended to pitch camp ,penthouse he wasn't kidding , by this time light is fading so its a quick get the tents up and hit the zzzz
(ill post the rest tomorrow dudes me brains hurting)
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Taff just read the fecking thing for what it is, not me O level english test you cock
more spelling mistakes later
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Righto dudes day 1
4.30 am and i think someones just switched a 500w halogen bulb in me tent on, set me phone to snooze.First things first get the berg out the van just to finish a few jobs off like put me reckluse on and check ive put most things back on right.
All this to the dawn chorus of birds tweating and a few man made sounds from the chiefs tent ,knowing chief likes to start the day with a smoke thoughts of all that methane in a small tent , they'ed never get a fire engine up that track
On the way for 10 ish after a full english breakfeast first stop to fill up with faff at the garage,the price of petrol seems to jump up for tt week as do's most things we find out.
First offroading mostly stone tracks heading up to the mountains, bikes running well just watching out to avoid getting pinch flats , with rickstar and chief pathfinding i ride with lard ,turns out he's not been riding to long but do's ok just a nice steady pace .The maps out a few times but we just chill and take in the views .
Good bit of single track through a plantation then it chucks it down with rain ,makes the steep downhills a tad tricky end up dropping it a few times but we all get down lard's the only one to make it sunny side up :?
After 5.30 the roads close for practice so we head to the pub down Sulby straight to watch pratice , to see a full blown super-bike pass you bye no more than 8' away blows you away no s..t 8O .Head back to base camp 9.30 for a quick swill and debrief then head to the boozzer well we are on holliday
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Day 2/3 much the same type of riding a few boggs to test you but no problems , top notch weather the last fw days all sunny bit of mist late on .
Headed out past Jurby to have a blast on the beach and play on the dunes marked out a big figure 8 on the beach spent a hour revin the nuts off the berg nice bit of grippy sand the berg feels so planted speedway style .Gave the berg chance to cool off then went try out some sandy hillclimbs ,turns out theres a moto x track over one hill well it would rude not to come all this way and not have a ripp round.
So me and chief get stuck into some sandy moto laps when i see rickstar stoot next a ktm rider oh sht were in for a bollocking ,gets a bit closer f..k me its onlny David Knight .......
Turns out he's out for abit of practice chew the fat over things racing in the states ,takes the piss out me berg get a a few photo's ,then he takes us for a lap round his practice loop ,wheni say takes us round we eat roost for 10 seconds and Knighter waits round the next few corners for us to catch
What a top bloke we then watch him do the nasty looking climbs... half man half mountain goat ,over to one side theres some large log's and tyres to blast over ..we take the opion lets just watch how it should be done , Top day made the holliday justwait till i tell brookester .
Any way last day meet up with some friends who have just got here at a different camp site left them gave the berg a handfull of gas on leaving snaps sieways fook mee think yeh i can sve this what with me beach speedway stye still fresh when the back tyre grips and slaps e down hard highside s..t s..t s..t that hurt ,first thought get on bike and save face stands up oooohhh errr me shouder feels odd.
ahh that will be me collar bone yep , gets back to base camp crawls in me tent thinking what a nob , anyhow bust cooller bone or not got van loaded the next day and got the ferry home went for a bit of lazer treatmet when i got back ,its been over 3 weeks know nearly back to normal ,what ever normal is .
ill try and post me pic's sorry if the reports a tad numb but if you ever get the chance to go do it top place
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yeh brookester is on the cusp between pot hunting in the clubman class and dipping his toe's in the eggspurts class , top weeks riding going to try to get there again ,should be a good place to show uhe dudes
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